Sentences with phrase «with orangutan»

Donald Trump announced last week that he is dropping his $ 5 million lawsuit against comedian Bill Maher over Maher's statement on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that he would donate $ 5 million to a charity of Trump's choice if Trump could prove that he was not «the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.»

An encounter with an orangutan in its natural environment is one of the world's great — and increasingly rare wildlife experiences.

Only poor Alexander elevates the material, with a kind of quiet dignity that doesn't quite survive a scene in which he stumbles around screeching with an orangutan on his head; the moments he shares with his boys are free of histrionics and false notes.

Ever since I read Poe's «The Murders in the Rue Morgue,» I've had a mild obsession with the orangutan.

Piltdown Man turned out to be one of the most famous frauds in scientific history — a human cranium paired with an orangutan's jaw and teeth.

I'm absolutely in love with this Orangutan Baby Sundress.

In connection with her research with the orangutan Chantek, H. Lyn Miles offers a five - level schemata of deception.

Specifically, we are great apes, along with orangutans, gorillas, and chimps / bonobos.

Highlights include coming face - to - face with orangutans and watching them swing freely high above your head, hand feeding giraffes (through October), seeing elephants again (Chicago hasn't had one since 2010.)

They can't compete with the orangutans, who are really cute, these guys are really hideous... They've got massive noses, really ugly willies, and they're full of farts.

I've seen him walking with orangutans after having never experienced something like that before.

The ranger who works with the orangutans always said, «Do not go anywhere near the orangutans and their territory.»

If jokes about mental illness, terminal disease and sex with orangutans sound funny to you, go for it.

While I was growing up, Eastwood was a Dirty Harry joke and the guy who acted with Orangutans.

We may share 97 percent of our genes with orangutans, but they remain the ginger - haired tree - dancers and we the chatterbox ground - dwellers.

I've had wild adventures with Orangutans, explored remote villages in Wakatobi, and gone surfing in Bali.

Going back to 12.8 million years ago, we're near the common ancestor with orangutans (gorillas split off in the meantime, about 8 million years ago).

Reflections of Eden: My years with the Orangutans of Borneo.

Not exact matches

The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.

Greenpeace considers this a major victory: two months ago, the environmental group targeted Nestle's use of palm oil with a purposely unsettling video that compared eating Kit - Kat bars to snacking on the bloodied appendages of orangutans.

In particular, humans share an unfortunate «broken gene» with many other primates, including chimpanzees, orangutans, and macaques.

The removal of acres of rainforest threatens the rich biodiversity in these finely balanced ecosystems, along with the habitat of species such as the orangutan.

As he describes his life, it sounds like a Vegas floor show, complete with Bobby Berosini and his dancing orangutans, Sigfried and Roy and a naked sleight - of - hand artist.

Eating Season is what I like to call the 3 - month extravaganza that begins at Halloween when Americans consume even more of their most delicious and comforting candies, bulldozes through Thanksgiving, when we eat all our feelings about being with family (or our country having elected a nationalist orangutan to the White House around this time last year), continues through the December holidays, and ends with the Super Bowl when we can no longer actually chew and consume all our favorite foods in mushy, dip form.

We have worked with institutions such as the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum and run wildlife tours in conjunction with conservation agencies such as Fauna & Flora International, Wildlife Conservation Society, the Orangutan Foundation, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and the Jane Goodall Institute.

The Borneo wetlands teem with darting birds, slithering snakes and dangling orangutans.

So the orangutan chromosome setup looks the most like the ancient ancestor revealed by Kim's team, with eight ancient chromosomes intact.

It's a single study with a single orangutan.

A few of those chromosomes have stayed intact — with their genes in the same order — over the past 105 million years, at least in orangutans and humans.

«We found that chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas do not show a significant overlap of genes under positive selection with domesticates.

To estimate changes in the size of the orangutan population over time, Voigt, along with Serge Wich from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and their colleagues representing 38 international institutions, compiled field surveys conducted from 1999 to 2015.

After testing the technology on a tower built at one - fifth scale (compared with a normal turbine tower), Scottish Enterprise is now looking for partners to turn the prototype Orangutan into a climbing machine that can be commercialized.

Comparisons with skeletons of 33 Sumatran and Bornean male orangutans revealed a range of differences in the skull and teeth of the Tapanuli ape, including a distinctively narrow palate and a relatively short jaw joint.

The list of probable cultural traits is not as long as that for chimpanzees, but orangutans» tendency to interact with their neighbors less than chimps do made the pattern of learning even clearer.

Orangutans (also spelled orang utan, orang - utan, sometimes incorrectly orangutang) are two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair.

Curious to see if orangutan researchers could come up with a list of behaviors similar to that compiled by chimpanzee researchers, van Schaik invited his colleagues to a 3 - day meeting to compare notes.

The soulful Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is a consummate acrobat, swinging with ease through the canopy of its rainforest home.

When orangutans play with each other, they sometimes open their mouths in the ape equivalent of a smile.

The loss of habitats is the greatest threat to the endangered orangutans, and now a new study says their existence could be further jeopardized if conservation efforts don't include reintroducing these great apes into natural environments with enough high - energy food for them to survive.

Bornean orangutans living in forests impacted by human commerce seek areas of denser canopy enclosure, taller trees, and sections with trees of uniform height, according to new research from Carnegie's Andrew Davies and Greg Asner published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«In the course of a year, we took the CAO aircraft and team to northern Borneo, mapped its habitats in 3 - D, combined the data with Marc's orangutan observations, and made a critically important scientific discovery that directly bears on the conservation of one of the world's most iconic ape species,» said Asner, the project's leader.

Karin Konoval wears mo - cap gear with reference points that capture her performance as Maurice the orangutan, digitally rendered in post-production.

Although the orangutans at the Great Ape Trust spend their days running, climbing up trees, and playing with their friends, they expended about 30 % less energy than expected for their mass, Pontzer's team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

After taking measurements and collecting observations on nine living primate species, including humans, Carrier concluded that the living apes with the shortest legs for their body size, like gorillas and orangutans, are those that spend the least time in trees.

A team including Michael Krützen at the University of Zurich in Switzerland compared Raya's skull and teeth with those of 33 other orangutans.

He climbs up the tree part way, the mother orangutan with the tiny little baby climbs down, sits by Steve holding onto her baby.

In 2013, a Tapanuli orangutan called Raya died of his wounds after a conflict with locals.

Even a four - year - old child or an orangutan rarely confuses a mirror image of a banana for the real thing, but the older, wiser Sally does, despite her lifetime experience with mirrors.

Orangutans were next, followed by gorillas, with the chimpanzees and human lineages diverging from each other last.

What the orangutan then does is wiggle, wiggle with that stick until that seeds actually come s loose.